Photinia Fraserii - the flowering tree in the background - smothered in blooms. The girls are pretty much going 50 feet there, and back, and there, and back...dawn to dusk. Since this comb and 8 more of them didn't exist 2 weeks ago at the last inspection, I'm thinking if chemically analyzed, they'd be about 90% Photinia. How do they do it?? Wow.

Pussywillows are blooming and some other fruit tree out in my pasture, which I haven't had time to go check to see what it is. A couple of trees in town are blooming. The red maples are still blooming.

Our gallberry bushes just started blooming today. They have more flowers on one branch than I have seen on entire bushes in the past. In previous years I had to look hard to find a bee on The gallberry bushes. That was with my 12 hives and 64 commercial hives within a stones throw. Every Bush we looked at was full of bees. And this year the commercial Beek, at my request, did not put his bees on top of me because when he does, neither one of us makes much honey. Hoping to have a great honey harvest. Jim Altmiller